Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

We must keep our dignity before others. Unless we do that, we expose ourselves to insult.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.